A primary cell is a battery that is designed to be used once and discarded, and not recharged with electricity and reused like a secondary cell. In general, the electrochemical reaction occurring in the cell is not reversible, rendering the cell unrechargeable.
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DATE: December 06, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTHigh-throughput confocal microscopy has changed the way drug screening can be performed, by enabling the detection of single-cell pheno...
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 07:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
DATE: December 4, 2018TIME: 4:00pm CET PSCs represent an important tool in a wide range of applications, including basic research, disease...
DATE: December 4, 2018TIME: 8:00am CET PSCs represent an important tool in a wide range of applications, including basic research, disease...
DATE: November 29, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTAn overview of primary immune deficiency disorders (PID) and laboratory testing for PIDPrimary immune deficiencies (PIDs), oth...
Development of physiologically relevant cellular models, with strong translatability to human pathophysiology, is critical for identification and validation of novel therapeutic targets. Cell...
DATE: November 13,2018TIME: 3:00pm CET, 7:30pm IST, 06:00am PST The assessment of cell health and cellular responses after experimental manipulation continue to be a very important...
The last decade has seen a significant shift in the way that mammalian cells are used in biomedical science. Researchers are increasingly turning from simple, reductionist recombinant cells t...
Biomedical researchers are increasingly using advanced human cell models for translational biology and therapeutic discovery studies. These include patient-specific samples, cultured micro-ti...
Despite exciting recent developments in neuroscience, identifying novel, truly effective treatments for patients with neurological and psychiatric conditions remains highly challenging. There...
Deriving deeper biological insight & improving productivity in immune-cell biologyThe most common in vitro methods for immunologists to analyze cells of the immune system are flow cyt...
As the most common female malignancy, breast cancer is the most likely reason that a woman will die of cancer around the world. Breast cancer mortality has dropped in the U.S. by 35% since 19...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Large-scale sequencing studies have revealed the complex genomic landscape of NSCLC and genomic differences between lun...
Two projects looking at novel approaches to targeting inflammatory breast cancer will be presented. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a unique, understudied, and most lethal subtype account...
The oncogenic transcription factor c-MYC (MYC) is deregulated, and often overexpressed, in more than 50% of cancers. MYC deregulation is associated with poor prognosis and aggressive disease,...
In the past two decades a small number of infrequently dividing cells have been proposed as the source of multi-drug resistance during cancer treatment. These cells identified by their expres...